Bug#300119: marked as done (libc6: LD_DEBUG=versions can lead to segmentation fault)
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From: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
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Subject: libc6: LD_DEBUG=versions can lead to segmentation fault
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Package: libc6
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1) I compiled /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 aka libpng12.so.0.1.2.8 from
sources and installed it. Symptoms are the same using the Debian
source package or the tarball from libpng.org.
2) As a tangential issue: Many programs (even ones like "vi", for
which it doesn't make much sense) now issue the warning
/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by ...)
which is pretty weird; why does "vi" depend on libpng anyway?
I note in passing that the libpng makefile tries to set some
version information with -soname, and I don't understand why
that isn't good enough .... but that is *not* the bug I wish to
emphasize at the moment.
3) In the attempt to debug the tangential issue, I tried using
LD_DEBUG=versions. What a disaster. Any program that
previously issued a warning now segfaults. For example:
LD_DEBUG=versions vi
[snip]
12633: checking for version `GLIBC_2.0' in file /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 required by file /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
12633: checking for version `PNG12_0' in file /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 required by file /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
Segmentation fault
Bottom line: I don't know what (if anything) is wrong with
libpng12 ... but no matter what, it shouldn't cause ld.so
to segfault. Wild memory references often lead to sneaky
security problems, not to mention the obvious loss of functionality.
And BTW, as a bonus, if somebody can explain what incantations
are required to compile things with "version information" that
works, that would be great.
Thanks!
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Subject: Re: Bug#300119: libc6: LD_DEBUG=versions can lead to segmentation fault
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At Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:04:07 -0500,
John Denker wrote:
> can be found at
> http://www.av8n.net/bugs/ldd.txt
> (It's 825 lines long, so I was hesitant to include it
> in email ... but I will do that also, upon request.)
>
> There is a segfault a few lines from the end, slightly
> hidden.
In this bug report, we don't know which vi is used. Your vi links a
lot of libraries. I don't know what the problem is, but I guess (1)
you use non-debian vi which is not linked correctly (2) you use
invalid dynamic linker setting: for example, LD_PRELOAD or
/etc/ld.preload and so on.
I think this bug report is not essentially related with the current
glibc, so I close it. John, if you plan to use versioned symbols, you
possibly want to read Ulrich Drepper's nice document (try to use
google).
Regards,
-- gotom
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